7. SVT Aleen Cust
Location: 53.585474, -8.271482 Aleen Cust made history as the first female vet in either Ireland or Britain and faced great opposition despite females surely being infinitely more knowledgeable about...
6 Apr 20221min
6 SVT Absent landlords
6 Apr 20222min
SRH 21. Shannonbridge Fortifications
Location: 53.278611, -8.046389 These fortifications are an outstanding example of early 19th century artillery fortifications, built following the 1798 rising, to guard against a further French invas...
4 Apr 20221min
SRH 20. Nure Wake House
Location: 53.345, -8.01004 Park beside the road. Known to the present day as "The Caoinna Marbh" (crying of the dead), this Wake house was frequently used in early Christian times to rest coffins an...
4 Apr 20221min
SRH 19. Thomastown Mausoleum
Location: 53.36842, -8.07234 The cemetery and the very fine Naghten mausoleum were both restored in 1997-1999 by Drum Heritage Group, as was the adjacent early Christian Church known locally as t...
4 Apr 202240s
SRH 18. Drum Heritage Centre, Holy Well and Graveyard
Location: 53.39827, -8.03146 Drum Heritage Centre has a large display area containing one of the largest collections in the midlands of historic documents relating to Drum and the local area, inc...
4 Apr 202239s
SRH 17. Curraghaleen Hedge School
Location: 53.41071, -8.04632 Park on road beside school. Not many ruins of Hedge Schools are to be found today in rural Ireland. Described as a wretched cabin on the 1826 Survey of Schools, the recor...
4 Apr 20221min
SRH 16. Meehambee Dolmen
Location: 53.41188, -8.01972 Park at tomb sign beside road. The 300 metre long Bridle Pathway at Meehambee, Drum leads to the prehistoric monument, the 3500 BC megalithic burial tomb, Four separate i...
4 Apr 20222min
